The relationship between medical students' empathy, mental health, and burnout: A cross-sectional study

被引：25

作者：

Carrard, Valerie ^{[1
]}

Bourquin, Celine ^{[1
]}

Berney, Sylvie ^{[2
]}

Schlegel, Katja ^{[3
]}

Gaume, Jacques ^{[4
]}

Bart, Pierre-Alexandre ^{[5
]}

Preisig, Martin ^{[6
]}

Mast, Marianne Schmid ^{[7
]}

Berney, Alexandre ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Lausanne, Lausanne Univ Hosp CHUV, Dept Psychiat, Psychiat Liaison Serv, Ave Beaumont 23, CH-1011 Lausanne, Switzerland

[2] Univ Lausanne, Lausanne Univ Hosp CHUV, Dept Psychiat, Serv Gen Psychiat, Lausanne, Switzerland

[3] Univ Bern, Inst Psychol, Bern, Switzerland

[4] Univ Lausanne, Lausanne Univ Hosp CHUV, Dept Psychiat, Addict Med, Lausanne, Switzerland

[5] Univ Lausanne, Lausanne Univ Hosp CHUV, Dept Internal Med, Lausanne, Switzerland

[6] Univ Lausanne, Lausanne Univ Hosp CHUV, Ctr Psychiat Epidemiol & Psychopathol, Dept Psychiat, Lausanne, Switzerland

[7] Univ Lausanne, Fac Business & Econ HEC Lausanne, Dept Org Behav, Lausanne, Switzerland

来源：

MEDICAL TEACHER | 2022年 / 44卷 / 12期

基金：

瑞士国家科学基金会;

关键词：

Undergraduate; medical education research; communication skills; student support; EMOTION RECOGNITION TEST; PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES; INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES; QUESTIONNAIRE; DEPRESSION; DIMENSIONS; DISTRESS; QUALITY; VERSION; SCALE;

D O I：

10.1080/0142159X.2022.2098708

中图分类号：

G40 [教育学];

学科分类号：

040101 ; 120403 ;

摘要：

Objective To investigate how medical students' empathy is related to their mental health and burnout. Methods This cross-sectional study included 886 medical students from curriculum years 1-6. The cognitive, affective, and behavioural dimensions of empathy were measured with self-report questionnaires and an emotion recognition test. Regressions were used to test the relationship between the empathy dimensions, depressive symptoms, anxiety, and burnout as well as the influence of curriculum year and gender. Results Cognitive and behavioural empathy were significantly related to less mental health issues and burnout, whereas affective empathy was related to more mental health issues and burnout. Students in later curriculum years reported less mental health issues and burnout than students in earlier years, whereas no systematic difference could be observed for empathy. Female students reported more mental health issues and burnout as well as higher empathy, except for behavioural empathy for which male students scored higher. Conclusions The cognitive, affective, and behavioural dimensions of empathy were differently related to the mental health and burnout of medical students. Students presenting mental health issues or burnout might have more difficulty to adapt their behaviour in social situations and keep a certain distance when taking others' perspective.

引用

页码：1392 / 1399

页数：8

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